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Unfortunately, only six houses have agreed to adopt this idea. The plan can only work if all houses are involved. To back both diversity and choice, all houses should signal their support for the plan...
...intifadeh, which has taken the lives of more than 300 Palestinians and seven Israelis since December 1987, remains uncertain. He might push autonomy in an attempt to disarm the rebellion but forestall any grander political or territorial concessions. If nothing else worked, he might reverse his previous opposition and adopt a strategy proposed by Ariel Sharon, one of the hawks in his party. The Sharon scheme calls for Israel to incorporate unilaterally the Jewish settlement areas in the territories as well as land deemed necessary for security. Then it would withdraw its military forces from the remaining Arab-populated areas...
Quite simply, Bush will have no Presidential honeymoon. Democrats in Congress will punish Bush for his say nothing campaign. They have no incentive to adopt Bush's proposals, because he offered none for popular referendum. Bush will be little more than a four-year lame duck...
...Americans prefer to have a choice between candidates. To annoint Sam Nunn, Bill Bradley or Lloyd Bentsen as the party's standard-bearer is tantamount to telling the electorate, "Well, sure, we're the Democratic Party, but we're the Democratic Party, but we're going to try to adopt the Republican Party's ideals, and try to convince you that we can do a better job at being conservative that they...
...tell their story of trouble in Nirvana, Hubner and Gruson adopt the usual techniques of the true-crime genre. Hearsay information is accepted as more or less reliable, and eyewitness accounts are energetically dramatized. Some characters are protected by pseudonyms. Others are fictional or, as the journalists prefer, "composites." In addition, dialogue that could not have been recorded firsthand is approximated for maximum effect. Here, for example, is a murder scene in which the victim, repeatedly shot, stabbed and bludgeoned, is as hard to kill as Rasputin...